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Government response to final advice

In response to the Committee’s report the Government Response outlines the Government’s support for the Committee’s recommendations and how implementation will proceed.

The report contains 72 recommendations addressing the following:

  • Statutory water management plans
  • Water entitlements
  • Metering
  • Water licence administration fees
  • Water trading
  • Water use efficiency
  • Integrated land
  • Water planning
  • Self management

Taken together, these recommendations provide a reform package that will see our water resources better planned, shared, managed, used and monitored.

The reforms have significant benefits for water users, the environment and the broader community.

With the final advice complete and the release of the Government response, the Committee’s function has concluded. For queries relating to the water reform program please contact the Department of Water.

 
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Adobe Portable Document Format A blueprint for water reform in Western Australia
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Publish Date: 27-FEB-2007 05:20 PM
In September 2005, the Western Australian Government established the Water Reform Implementation Committee to provide detailed advice on progressing water reform in Western Australia. This followed from the Government Response to the Final Report of the Irrigation Review Steering Committee. 
 
Adobe Portable Document Format Government Response to A Blueprint For Water Reform
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Publish Date: 27-FEB-2007 04:50 PM
The detailed reforms of the Blueprint follow on from the recommendations of the Irrigation Review Steering Committee’s Report of 2005, which looked at current and forecast water use across all sectors in Western Australia and initiated a significant water reform agenda in the State.